Hargreaves Glacier
| Hargreaves Glacier | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 46 ′ S , 74 ° 20 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Sandefjord Ice Bay | |
The Hargreaves Glacier is a glacier on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It flows 3 km west of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen in the middle of the head end of the Sandefjord Ice Bay .
The American cartographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919-2007) mapped it using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947). Roscoe named the glacier after Richard Bryan Hargeaves (1915-1995), who took these aerial photographs. Likelihood of confusion with the named also after Hargreaves Hargreavesbreen in Queen Maud Land .
Web links
- Hargreaves Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hargreaves Glacier on geographic.org (English)